eleven pm moscow time tonight fresh violence in egypt on the eve of a crucial vote as thousands of islam is clashing with those opposing the controversial draft constitution leaving dozens injured to get a live report coming up just ahead. has already. a million documents to be released. promises no country in the world will remain unaffected by wiki leaks revelations. twenty. of russia's lower house of parliament approved. americans from adopting russian

children in retaliation for america's so-called magnitsky. hello there a very good evening chief who just joined us my name is kevin irwin here at the new center tonight it's good to have you company first this hour in egypt dozens of people have been injured in fierce clashes which erupted between islamists and their opponents in the country's second largest city of alexandria police used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters who took to the streets on the eve of the second leg of voting on the new draft constitution that split the country let's find out more now from cairo based reporter true she's joining us live from cairo like what exactly prompted the violence on the streets of alexandria today.

on the day before this second round of the referendum thousands of pro constitution protesters gathered it counted it pretty mosque in the second city egypt second city out xandra this is essential running point in in the city in support of this constitution they were chanting for the implementation of sharia law what happened is that rival for a change breached rights and picked up fights with some of those protesting in support of the constitution rock throwing began between the two sides which escalated with cars being burned as well as heavy heavy violence on the streets police intervened with take us and in attempt to separate the two sides which it ended up being successful so far was sick the least thirty two people have been injured so this is seen now is this still tension on the on the streets the minister of interior released a statement saying that they want this violence to stop and warned people against

having these exchanges battles on the streets and that they would be repercussions caused by the previous one the referendum saw a more than fifty percent of the population saying yes to the draft constitution what are the expectations now for saturday. absolutely in the first round of the forenoon which took place last week there was fifty seven percent approximately thirty seven percent of the country said yes the constitution this round people on both sides are saying it's likely to be yes again mr. a largely rule i've cut.

what the results are although it is likely to be a yes what happens after that of course is yet to be seen as well they consider as somebody who drafted the constitution how they meeting today put it to talk about the draft supposedly with the opposition figures caught it still very much dissent on the streets behind me hundreds gathered around to hear again against the constitution so we still think it divided egypt with not much future of people coming together in the in the short time. telling us tonight current post reporter belled true that live from. russia e.u. cooperation should be defined by choice not forced by necessity that europe sees future ties with russia indeed it is a view that second by president putin as well as in brussels for talks with the blocs leaders for the first time since his return to the kremlin. a lot of speculation happened before the summit that this will be

a meeting of confrontation rather than a corporation but it actually turned out absolutely the opposite scenario all these speakers. started off by saying that the trade turnover between the e.u. and russia has grown significantly now it's exceeding three hundred billion euros a year and this is a good sign but both sides expressed their willingness to make it a corporation by choice not by necessity our relation as a huge potential that can still be explored as we have proposed to president putin we should drill for an interdependent spend their society into an interdependent space shows but clearly the biggest contradictions still remain in the issues of the energy supplies from russia to the european continent i'd like to remind you is that the e.u. still has a certain accusations and certainly has some things they say about gazprom wanting them to allow the access to the governmental access to their pipelines in

europe while gas from certainly says this may not happen but today we've heard a lot of statements from both the european union leaders and putin on that issue in particular. saying that russia is not against all these kind of regulations but the only problem is that the two thousand and nine legislation made by europe in terms of the monopoly on the gas pipes now concerns the deals which had been struck before that and the russian president described that as completely uncivilized still hoping that sides will be managed will manage to find some sort of compromise or during the press conference the energy issue took the majority of the of the time from the speakers and in the end of the press conference was even humorous about the very rather long reply by mr barroso. my friend of many years mr barroso has been explaining his position on gas prices for so long. and you can see realizes that he's wrong just read our cooperation agreement with. gas

prices as dictated by markets not by a government agency when they should use definitely the energy sector is very important and certainly dominated the talks but of course size they also talked about the visa free travel for e.u. citizens and russians saying that this is a possibility in the very nearest future and also touching upon the geopolitical issues such as the syrian conflict where the argument would and certainly reiterated russia's stance that this has to be dealt with behind the negotiation stable not by the violence not by a military conflict and there seem to be lots of understanding between the e.o.p. and leaders and reporting on that a lecture. due to the sun she is promising wiki leaks will release more than a million secret files over the next twelve months in publications that will affect every country in the world he says the whistleblower gave a christmas address from the ecuadorian embassy in london was a year in what was his first public appearance and since august laura smith was there the world's media and

a lot of supporters have come out for him this evening also holding a candlelight vigil he called the crowd when he came out a sight for sore eyes and then he marked his six month at the embassy by talking about it saying that he entered the building and it's become his home and he's right to the principles of the religious people who have taken him in and then he said that he is able to communicate to the people here unlike two hundred thirty two journalists who are currently in jail all over the world he named a few of them and he also spoke with bradley manning who approach is accused of leaking documents to wiki leaks and he said he syndicated journalist and others to stand up to repression let's listen in to what he's got to say people often ask what can i do. the answer is not so difficult. how the world works challenge the statements and intentions of those who seek to control us behind. democracy and more nikki unite in common purpose and common principle to design

document. in loon show and act now two thousand and twelve has been a busy year for wiki leaks he has written a book useful to me to show farsi and wiki leaks has continued to release documents but it seems that two thousand and thirteen will be no less busy a team have prepared a million documents which they promise to release with information that he says relates to every single governments around the world and he also reiterated his plans to run for the australian senate so the message here is he might be picked up inside the at the syrian embassy but he certainly not resting on his laurels and will of course be following closely over the next twelve months to go to his son his christmas address as well if not called it already in full and streaming on a web site called we also get more as well on the top level exposures he's planning . russian lower house of parliament has passed

a bill targeting americans accused of abusing the human rights of russians abroad it also bans americans from adopting russian children that move comes in response to the u.s. is so-called magnitsky act scores controversy here in russia nazis in the front says more on the ongoing tit for tat. most of vice of part of this bill is definitely the provision talking about adoption of russian children by american families it was approved overwhelmingly by the duma four hundred twenty four to six seven and it's been opposed by the education ministry and human rights activists citing that many of these children that do get adopted by american families with disabilities and they're given a better life in another country a bill backers have been unhappy for some time about the adoption process that takes place between russia and the united states nineteen children have died at the

hands of their u.s. adoptive parents in the last several years and to moscow has wanted to be more involved in securing the human rights of children that do head overseas with those families this russian bill is in response to so-called magnitsky act adopted in the u.s. now this all began when that lawyer sergei magnitsky died in pretrial detention here in moscow in november of two thousand and nine he had accused russian officials of major tax fraud and died in jail while under investigation for investments u.s. lawmakers have wanted to hold responsible the people who it thinks may have been responsible for his death by freezing assets and revoking visas moscow has seen this is a very anti russian piece of legislation so this bill is in response to that so it will not only freeze assets and revoke visas of americans that it feels has

violated the human rights of russians it will also now bad the adoption of russia's children over to the united states at the next step for this it's got to pass the upper chamber of the russian parliament and then it's got to go for a signature. by the present. growing racism violent nationalism an abuse of rights of minorities and prisoners there are just some of the things that rush's accusing the european union of highlighting the decline in liberties these days a stinging report in fact focusing on the e.u. also points to an abuse of power in dispersing street demonstrations constantine dog off the foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights explained to us at r.t. the reason behind moscow's targeting if you. weigh the european union because the european union positions and most of its members position themselves as.

works of democracy as certain yardsticks by which the international community absolutely must measure its own record wreckers in the field of human rights and nobody disputes by the way the fact that european union is in the european quite a number of its members not all but quite a number of its members develop democracies but what we see is there despite those effects there are some other effects there that are very serious challenges and problems in the european union and the in each and every or its member countries in the field of human rights. full interview with the russian foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights in the next hour here on out tonight still ahead he was well yemen's president

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wealthy british style. like. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report on our. use of europe's night the last couple of hours italy's prime minister mario monti has resigned it means the country is preparing for early elections now expected in february the announcement comes after the country's upper house of parliament approved next year's budget. wanted to ease president he would resign after that vote that's three months before the show jeweled ended his term he said he's lost

the backing he needs to do the job off a silver but a skull these are not really true it's a parliamentary support for him. four of greece's largest banks could be in line for bailouts of reporting huge losses this year together they'll need about twenty seven billion euros worth of loans to stay afloat greece has been relying on international bailout funds since twenty ten leading to tough austerity measures being forced of course upon the population demitra sinopoli says an economist in greece he joins us live on the line from athens let's talk to him get is about it i do beatrice my save to my further bad news though for greece now four major banks in trouble how much of a blow is this for your country well this is no surprise. of the greek banks for a haircut of. some of the greek. house loans it. was part of the second bailout loans which greece started receiving.

it's not the banks that have failed it's. the economic situation that was created that has decimated the greek banking sector which was. one among the most resilient. in europe it was not a never exposed to toxic instruments will function fine but then came the now these banks are now nonetheless if these bags do need a bailout i guess some of the brunt of that is going to fall on the public isn't it . oh no most of it is going to fall to the dock on the public because the loans on which. this recapitalization of the banking sector is going to greece are coming from. the troika e.u. i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be paid they're going to be part of the big national debt

which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayer who is already blackly so it does is also it is bad news for the greek public. communal immediately a very short. yes i can last question tears on how do you assess this whole bailout policy the whole bailout strategy for greece the you say your country when you live there do you see any light at the end of the tunnel. well not at the moment the reason being that this bailout strategy has put greece under a tree. economic strangulation on the one hand you have. the banking sector which has been forced into insolvency and has cut down its loans. at sector. sector.

that is society at large small businesses have gone under the we had forty thousand small businesses closing this year alone three hundred additional thousands of. job losses as a total unemployment rate of twenty six percent. so we have really. on the one hand austerity on the other hand. a bank inability to provide liquidity for the market this. can't go on because for instance in it to give you an example the the last tranche which you are a group has approved for greece after six months of ney's thirty four point four billion euros out of that sixteen billion are going to the banking sector for that require

that we to talk about but only one billion is going to go straight into the greek markets in the form of for liquidity to businesses seed providers stay suppliers exporters etc i was done you know i got fired i hear the subject saying the debate trysts i'm afraid we're out of time we got to go to break in a second but we do appreciate you being on the on the line tonight although the line wasn't great after a lot of us demitra chin up less thank you. this is all to say thank you very much to be with us shortly will u.s. lawmakers have the nerve to stick to the guns of the new term school shooting we discuss the issue in a few minutes some people as crosstalk after the break. you

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alone and welcome to cross talk on peter lavelle death by gunshot with the heart wrenching murder of twenty children six adults in newtown connecticut there appears to be a change of mood in the u.s. about its gun laws and culture of violence well this tragedy be a catalyst for change or merely a blip in america's love affair with guns. to cross the guns in america i'm joined by roger pale in washington he is the founder and director of cato center for constitutional studies in san francisco we have scott blakeman he is a political comedian and commentator and in paris we cross to rachel martin she's a political communications strategist and a syndicated columnist right cross talk rules in effect your list a very delicate subject and it's really taking the attention of the american people here we heard president obama talking about it that something has to change scott

in san francisco do you think that's possible is the mood change enough. to change a culture of violence in america absolutely i think the horrific shooting in newtown connecticut really is the tipping point and things have already changed first of all the national rifle association which for forty years has been more concerned about protecting the profits of gun manufacturers they're protecting innocent men women and children they're starting to speak differently formally pro-gun senators both democrats and republicans are already showing willingness to change the media here in the united states it's shifting so this this is different politically president obama who didn't do much in his first four years about gun control seems very committed he says you know there's no excuse not to take action so we need to reinstate the federal small weapons ban but this time do it with very few exceptions or no exceptions hopefully and now is the time to really and act tough gun legislation roger do you support that noticed that

scott has already begun by vilifying the national rifle association and painting this as a good guys and bad guys issue it is not that tall here in the united states under the second amendment the supreme court has ruled that individuals have the right to own guns for self-defense and for other purposes this is an ancient right of self-defense the debate that's going on right now on the part of some people would like to strip us of that right why do you think that that's. literally let me fill up my you're saying revoking the second amendment ok scott are you saying that absolutely not in fact that people use this paranoia that we're going to go to your house and take your guns away first of all he knows.